Mo' money, mo' problems, right, Gérard Depardieu?
The actor renounced his French citizenship and slammed his home country's prime minister Jean-Marc Ayrault on Sunday. In an open letter published in Le Journal du Dimanche, the Life of Pi star promised to hand over his passport and social security card.
"We no longer have the same country," he wrote. "I'm a true European, a citizen of the world, as my father always taught me."
Ayrault said the actor's move to Belgium was "shabby," adding that "paying a tax is an act of solidarity, a patriotic act."
According to Depardieu, he is paying an 85 percent tax on his assets in France. In Belgium, he
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